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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "I am quite concerned that the National Assembly has become a graveyard for legislation which is passed here in the Senate, and they go there and they find a slaughter house and die there. I do not know whether fighting them will be the solution. However, I would have suggested that when you are elected to this onerous position of the Senate Business Committee, you should develop some relationship with the National Assembly. Help us to create an amicable atmosphere where our Motions and our legislation do not stand as cattle to be slaughtered in the National Assembly. I hope that this committee given this task, will this time make sure that one of our most important functions, which is to make legislation - I have been in this Parliament for a long time - I am very pleased with the pace at which the Senate is processing legislation. The Senate is doing its work and doing it very well. There is quite a lot of legislation, very important for the country, which are passed here, but they never see the light of the day. They are killed at the National Assembly. I hope this will be taken seriously and something will be done about it. Secondly, I do not want to comment much, because when I came in here, I was not whipped by my Whip. He did not tell me that we were taking over the leadership on this side. So, I went and sat on the other side. However, Madam Temporary Speaker, what I can say is that if you see something happening in the National Assembly, that thing directly applies to the Senate. All of us know that the ruling about the leadership in the Assembly is exactly the same as ours here. So, I do not see whether we also want to wait for the Senate to go to court and get a similar ruling. Ukiona mwenzako akinyolewa, kichwa chako tia maji. So that we do not waste a lot of time going to court. Let us move because this country is ours all. We want to oversight. We are doing the same job. Whether you are in the minority or the majority, you are supposed to oversight. You are not supposed to defend the executive when they go wrong. Everybody is supposed to be on the same page. When the Government does something that needs support, everybody supports it. However, when they do something that requires criticism and openness in speaking, everybody is supposed to say the same. There should be no division in that matter because our oversight role is the same. They do not say that the minority or the majority will do the oversight of the Government. There is no such line that the majority or minority are the ones who are supposed to do oversight. It is the whole Senate and Parliament at large. It is our job to oversight on the executive. I hope that this matter will be resolved. What is happening there in the National Assembly is exactly what is happening here. Our Speaker is also a leader of a political party. However, we are not discussing our Speaker. I withdraw that statement."
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